''So Many People Died''
By Nick Turse
Nobody will ever know just how many civilians were killed in the years after that. ''The number is uncountable,'' he said
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33570.htm
Dehumanising War
By Lesley Docksey
Killing at a distance dehumanises those doing it, it is not killing but a computer game. Scoring a 'hit' that involves no blood, no entrails, no broken lives brings no guilt, no remorse and no proper awareness of the hurt inflicted on others.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33563.htm
Obama Names Head of Drone Assassination Program to Lead CIA
By Barry Grey
Obama gave a clear signal that he intends to expand the illegal program of drone assassinations that has already killed thousands of innocent civilians-men, women and children-and mutilated thousands more in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33559.htm
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
By William Blum
How can the country of Henry David Thoreau, separation of church and state, and family Thanksgiving dinners produce American super-nationalists capable of firing missiles into Muslim family reunions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33565.htm
Drone strikes claim lives in Pakistan
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/01/20131851154345478.html
Pakistanis hold protest against US assassination drone strikes
The protesters in the central city of Multan condemned Washington s unsanctioned drone strikes that claim the lives of hundreds of Pakistanis every year.
http://is.gd/RJUbMz
Retired general cautions against overuse of ''hated'' drones
Aerial reconnaissance and attack drones have had a liberating effect on U.S. military forces, but they are deeply hated by many people and their overuse could jeopardize Washington s broader objectives, retired General Stanley McChrystal said on Monday.
http://is.gd/g7uIYK
US drone attacks 'counter-productive', former Obama security adviser claims
US reliance on drones to target terrorists undermines rule of law, is ineffective and has strategic drawbacks, argues Michael Boyle.
http://is.gd/dxYG0U
The Fascinating Case of Lynne Stewart
By Jacob G. Hornberger
In the age of the national-security state and never-ending emergencies, it pays to keep your mouth shut.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33579.htm
Misplaced Secrecy on Targeted Killings
For years, President Obama has been stretching executive power to claim that the authorization to use military force against Al Qaeda gives him the unilateral authority to order people killed away from any battlefield without judicial oversight or public accountability - even when the target is an American citizen.
http://is.gd/1wv8DL
US Air Force Veteran, Finally Allowed to Fly Into US, is Now banned from Flying Back Home
By Glenn Greenwald
Secret, unaccountable no-fly lists are one of many weapons the US government uses to extra-judicially punish American Muslims.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33899.htm
Federal Judge Sentences Lynne Stewart to Death
Op-Ed
On August 9, The New York Times headlined 'Dying Lawyer s Request for Release From Prison Is Turned Down,' saying: 'A federal judge in Manhattan declined on Friday to order the release of Lynne F. Stewart, an outspoken former defense lawyer who is dying from cancer in a federal prison in Texas.'
http://is.gd/oYWanV
Happy Birthday Lynne Stewart
America s true face. It s ruthless. It s merciless. It's heartless. It s inhumane
By Stephen Lendman
Lynne s one of thousands of political prisoners languishing in America s gulag. It's the shame of the nation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36451.htm
America s Gulag: Obama Sentences Political Prisoner Lynne Stewart to Death
By Stephen Lendman
Lynne s crime was compassion. She was imprisoned for doing the right thing. She did it honestly, admirably and courageously.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37076.htm
Bureau of Prisons Fights against Early Release of Dying or Incapacitated Prisoners
Historically, BOP officials have mostly rejected requests from inmates to leave prison before their sentences are up due to terminal illnesses afflicting them or their immediate family members.
http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/bureau-of-prisons-fights-against-early-release-of-dying-or-incapacitated-prisoners-131231?news=852041
From Information Clearing House
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Weaponized Keynesians
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2013/01/08/338-weaponized-keynesians/
Military Is Being Downsized, But Covert Operations Are Gearing Up
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/covert-ops-up.html
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Manufacturing terrorists
Reason
by Michael German
01/15/13
Imagine a country in which the government pays convicted con artists and criminals to scour minority religious communities for disgruntled, financially desperate, or mentally ill patsies who can be talked into joining fake terror plots, even if only for money. Imagine that the country s government then busts its patsies with great fanfare to justify ever-increasing authority and ever-increasing funding. According to journalist Trevor Aaronson s The Terror Factory, this isn t the premise for a Kafka novel; it's reality in the post-9/11 United States...
http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/15/manufacturing-terrorists
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Dying Lawyer Lynne Stewart s Jubilant Return Home After Winning Compassionate Release
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2014/01/02-0
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